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In recording an album full of '60s songs, from the Beatles' "If I Fell" to the Cyrkle's "Red Rubber Ball," singer Nellie McKay discovered two important truths. First: Ha ha, drugs! "The stoner songs are really hard to do, especially stoned," she says. "But, generally, man, are they intricate. How did they ever play them when they were high out of their minds? I have no idea. Those bands must have just been together so long that they could play in their sleep. I'm still having my trouble; maybe they're harder to play straight." Second, the '60s do not deserve our mockery: "You want to have fun. You want to be free...

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In recording an album full of '60s songs, from the Beatles' "If I Fell" to the Cyrkle's "Red Rubber Ball," singer Nellie McKay discovered two important truths. First: Ha ha, drugs! "The stoner songs are really hard to do,...

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THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: 111 S. Michigan Ave. 312-443-3600. "Puppets!" on display through June 6. "A Voyage to South America: Andean Art in the Spanish Empire" on display through Feb....

Things to do and see around the city
ART
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: 111 S. Michigan Ave. 312-443-3600. "Puppets!" on display through June 6. "A Voyage to South America: Andean Art in the Spanish Empire" on display through Feb. 21,...

Things to do and see around the city
ART
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: 111 S. Michigan Ave. 312-443-3600. "Puppets!" on display through June 6. "A Voyage to South America: Andean Art in the Spanish Empire" on display through Feb. 21,...

At Spring Awakening, which ran Friday through Sunday at Soldier Field, it was easy to divine the hierarchy of the EDM world. If you're on the fourth stage, you might have an audience of 20 friends. Two and three, people know who you are and when you say...

"In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom," says electronic superstar Moby, who does not. Moby, born Richard Melville Hall, is on the phone to promote this weekend's Spring Awakening...

When Keith Gessen, the co-editor of n+1, asked if he could send me his translation of a Russian author I'd never heard of, I had no idea what I was getting into. "It's No Good" — a selection of the post-Soviet writer Kirill Medvedev's poems,...

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
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Is there anyone in Chicago having more fun this summer than Chris Chelios?
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The multi-day music and art festival known as Moogfest will relocate to Durham in 2016. WRAL-TV in Raleigh reports (http://bit.ly/1LfTvRB ) festival organizers and city leaders said Tuesday that the festival will be held May 19-22. It's been held for...

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The DJ and musician Moby, a vegan for 27 years, plans to open a vegan restaurant this summer called Little Pine in Silver Lake. He recently appeared at the Skirball Cultural Center in conversation with the co-founder of the animal welfare organization...

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Moby has sold his storied Wolf's Lair compound in Hollywood Hills for $12.4 million.
The DJ and singer-songwriter, whose name is Richard Melville Hall, had bought the walled and gated Norman-style castle four years ago for $3,925,000 from Lionsgate...